“We had to report it.
I was pretending to be River Phoenix.”
“I grew up on Makamah Road, about a block from the Long Island Sound.
Chris Messina; River Phoenix in ‘Stand by Me’.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
The young pals called the police.
“We had to report it,” Messina recalled.
“I was pretending to beRiver PhoenixinStand by Me.”
The drama is basedStephen King’s 1982 novellaThe Body.
Messina recently told EW thatStand by Me"was a huge movie” for himgrowing up.
The actor said of the movie’s director, Rob Savage, “He knows the genre so well.
I just followed his lead, because he knows how to build the tension very specifically.
He knows how to create the jump scares.
The Boogeymanis in theaters now.Based on a True Storypremieres June 8 on Peacock.
